Classic Chill Out
Best for: gentle background
Classic British chill out: the sound of soft electronic beats, warm synths and electric piano, with a hushed voice drifting through. Easy company for a long afternoon.
SoundPour is original, royalty-free background music for UK cafés, wine bars and small restaurants, from morning coffee through to last orders. Every track is made with AI music tools on paid commercial plans, reviewed by hand in Darlington, and registered with no collecting society: not PRS for Music, not PPL, not anyone. £149 for the first year at the early sign-up price, then £249 a year.
Every SoundPour track is made for the room it'll be played in, a Pennine Sunday morning, a Friday lunch service, a wine bar evening. Collections for the daytime, and a range that leans into the evening. You never have to pick between them: the player draws on all of it and works out what suits the hour.
Unhurried music that lives behind conversation: the classic chill out sound, Balearic sunsets, lo-fi beats, cinematic downtempo, folktronica, trip hop, dub and ambient.
Hear Chill Out in the demo ↗Classic British chill out: the sound of soft electronic beats, warm synths and electric piano, with a hushed voice drifting through. Easy company for a long afternoon.
Sun-warmed downtempo for terrace tables and slow Sundays. Soft pads, brushed percussion, no urgency.
The British take on lo-fi. Dusty jazz chords and head-nod beats, warm and unhurried, made for coffee counters and slow weekday afternoons.
The sound of live bass, strings, piano and soft electronics over a slow, steady groove. Bright and spacious, for delis, bakeries and lunch service through to early evening.
The sound of fingerpicked guitar and soft voice layered with cut-up beats and gentle electronics. The Acoustic Collection's quieter, stranger neighbour.
Bristol-school production warmth, downtempo grooves, dusty atmosphere. Slow breakbeats under tape hiss and reverb, made for café floors.
Deep sub-bass, cavernous spring reverb and a great deal of space between the hits. Slow and weighty, for the last hours of the night.
The sound of slow pads, muted piano and soft textures, mostly with no beat at all. Calm that never asks to be listened to, for galleries, spas, bookshops and the hour before service.
Acoustic mornings, jazz for lunch, lounge for the first drink and livelier music for the evening: soul, house, garage, techno and drum and bass.
The sound of fingerpicked guitar, brushed snare and the occasional swell of cello. British folk delicacy without the festival-headliner energy.
Parisian café jazz threaded with brushed drums and double bass. For long lunches and the lull just after.
The sound of hand percussion and open-air texture over an unhurried house pulse. Warm and organic, for rooms that want a little momentum without any volume.
West London bruk. Syncopated, jazz-inflected rhythms that fracture straight four-four without ever losing the groove. Keeps a room moving without asking for attention.
The sound of Rhodes, double bass, saxophone and muted trumpet over electronic beats, from slow grooves to a soft house pulse. Real jazz chords, livelier than Smooth Jazz and still easy to talk over.
The sound of today's London jazz scene: saxophone, keys, harp and rolling hand drums over Afro, Caribbean and hip-hop rhythms. Warm and lively, with the instruments changing from track to track.
Analogue warmth and patient arpeggios in the 1980s British synth tradition. Atmospheric rather than anthemic, so it colours a room instead of taking it over.
Liquid drum & bass at its most melodic and atmospheric. Warmer and calmer than the name suggests: sophisticated rather than energetic.
Slow electronic textures with a half-time pulse. Quiet enough for morning service, deep enough to hold an evening room.
Slow-burn neo-soul: Rhodes chords, elastic sub-bass, the voice used like candlelight. For wine bars and evening service, after the daytime crowd has gone.
Classic UK 2-step garage, shuffled and soulful, with a hazier, atmospheric strand of future garage. Chopped vocal hooks rolling over a warm bassline, for weekend evenings with the lights down low.
Melodic, hypnotic and continental. Glass-and-steel after-dark atmosphere for late lounges. Never a rave, always a room you'd want to linger in.
Polished, retro-tinged lounge with bossa-inflected grooves and vibraphone. Unashamedly smooth, built for the first drink of the evening.
Open to close, one running order across your whole trading day. The player moves through it on its own, working out where in the day you are from the opening hours you gave it, so nobody behind the counter ever has to change it.
Soft acoustic first thing, smooth jazz over lunch, terrace sessions through the afternoon. Warm and unhurried, made to sit behind conversation rather than compete with it.
Trip hop as the lights come down, slow burn R&B through cocktail hour, garage lifting the weekend, melodic techno carrying the last tables home.
These are not settings and there is nothing to switch between them. From mid afternoon the evening end gradually takes more of the weight, so a café closing at five only ever brushes the beginning of it, and a wine bar opening at six is already well inside it.
TheMusicLicence rates change every April. The starting figure below is PPL PRS's own published 2026 example. Put in your own bill if you know it. What this comparison cannot tell you is whether your venue still needs TheMusicLicence. That depends on every music source in your building, and it is a question for you and PPL PRS.
With VAT at 20%, that is £480.97 a year on the invoice.
Don't know your exact bill? PPL PRS's own example for a café or restaurant with up to 30 seats, 400 sq m or less, playing music via a radio, is £400.81 a year plus VAT (February 2026). We've pre-filled that. Change it if you know your real number.
TheMusicLicence for a venue like yours costs £400.81 a year plus VAT, which is £480.97 with VAT. A business that is not VAT registered cannot claim that VAT back, so it pays the full amount. SoundPour costs £149 in your first year at the early sign-up price, then £249 from year two, and that is the full price: SoundPour is not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add. Whether both of these figures apply to your venue, or only one, is a matter for you and PPL PRS to establish.
SoundPour is a different kind of catalogue: original work that has never been registered with a collecting society. What that means for your venue is between you and PPL PRS, and we give you the documentation for that conversation.
PRS and PPL collect royalties on behalf of writers, publishers, performers or record labels who are members of PRS for Music or PPL, or of their partner societies abroad. Nobody behind a SoundPour track is a member of PRS for Music, PPL or any other collecting society.
Read how the licensing works →Licensing guides by venue: cafés · pubs and bars · restaurants, or try the free checker
Every track is made specifically for the rooms it'll play in, from café mornings and long lunches to wine-bar evenings and small venues of every kind, here in Darlington. Researched, shaped, and chosen one by one. Original work, never lifted from anyone else's catalogue.
None of the music is registered with PRS, PPL, ASCAP, BMI or any other collecting society anywhere in the world. SoundPour maintains dated production records for the catalogue.
Every subscription comes with a Documentation Pack: a written licence to play the music at your premises, and a Declaration of Provenance covering your catalogue, suitable to put in front of PPL PRS or your accountant.
If you can play Spotify through your speakers, you can run SoundPour. There's no box to install and no hardware to buy.
What time you open, when you're busiest, and what you want the room to feel like. We put together a selection that fits. No card details, and nothing to sign at this stage.
A tablet, a laptop, a phone or the till machine, plugged into your sound system. That's the whole setup.
The music moves through the day on its own, worked out from your opening hours and a few answers you give it once at setup. You never have to change it. When you do want a say in the moment, there are buttons for calmer, busier, skip and something different, and the room settles back into the shape of the day afterwards.
A few basic details and we set up a private music player for your venue, usually within 24 hours, free for 60 days. Nothing to install, no card, no commitment.
Start your free betaor email us directly: hello@soundpour.co.uk